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In the first part [ibid. 43, 277-298 (1998; Zbl 0995.31007)] the totally increasing functions on a given ordered set were introduced and studied. In this second part one considers the set \({\mathcal E}(X)\) of all exact totally increasing functions (i.e., the real positive functions \(s\) on \(X\) such that for any \(x\in X\) we have \[ s(x)=\sup_{A\in {\mathcal A}_{x}}\sum\limits_{y\in A}s(y), \] where \({\mathcal A}_{x}\) is the set of all strictly minorants of \(x\), in which any two points are incomparable.) It is proved, under supplementary conditions, that there exists a submarkovian resolvent \({\mathcal V}=(V_{\alpha})_{\alpha}\) of kernels on \((X,{\mathcal B})\) (\({\mathcal B}\) being the \(\sigma\)-algebra generated by \({\mathcal E}(X)\)) such that the set of all \({\mathcal V}\)-excessive functions coincides with the set of all functions of the form \(s/u\) where \(s\in {\mathcal E}(X)\) and \(u\) is a given strictly positive function from \({\mathcal E}(X)\).